Tomorrow they vote on impeaching President Yoon who is also facing treason charges now. Apparently not following the rules for declaring martial law makes it illegally declared according to the constitution and makes it officially insurrection.
The Army Special Warfare commander came out today and said they refused orders to remove lawmakers on Tuesday night and if another coup attempt is ordered they will refuse those orders as well.
The head of National Intelligence said they refused orders to arrest political rivals and journalists and presented a list of who the targets were.
Rumors started that Yoon was planning another attempt before the vote which sent his party into a tizzy. Itâs suspected that he has a mole who is feeding the opposition info.
The health insurance industry has heard and understood Americansâ reaction to the murder of the UHC CEO. They have removed the profile pages of their top executives from their websites.
Americans bitch and moan about insurance companies and our for-profit healthcare system, but time and time again when give the option to change it overwhelmingly demand we keep it. They wail about the cost of premiums, but then justify them by saying theyâd rather that money go to insurance companies in the form of premiums than to the government in the form of taxes, even if the latter is cheaper and more efficient in the long run. Americans just hate taxes more than they love living and that is unlikely to change. I blame the British for this.
When I saw Cowboys-Giants come on the TV at thanksgiving, I said aloud, âwhat did America do to deserve this?â, then several obvious answers came to mind.
UHC posted a message on its FaceBook page about the death of its CEO. It received two thousand crying emoji responses and twenty thousand laughing emoji responses before they took down the post.
According to medical journal The Lancet, the US suffers 68,000 unnecessary deaths each year due to inability to access medical treatment. There are also over 500,000 personal bankruptcy filings every year due to medical debt.
What we are seeing here isnât some form of widespread psychopathy; what we are seeing is the public understanding viscerally that death by bullet and death by coverage denial are indistinguishable.
I have seen this new boondoggle (because itâs not an official government department and has no official powers) referred to as âDoucheâ, and that will be forever its name in my mind.
As an employee of UHC, I had to watch a âfireside chatâ today where the CEO of UHG ( the big big boss) made a statement and then answered some preselected questions.
I swear, one of thr questions was âHow are you assuring the stockholders that UHC is stableâ
Thompson was gunned down at 7am on his way to a shareholder call at 8am. That 8am call went ahead as scheduled. The reward for the capture of the killer of the CEO of a $359 billion revenue company isâŚ$10,000.
This whole thing is klieg light on the valuation of human life.
I understand the sentiment (on the day of the murder I received a notice from UHC that they were denying a family memberâs claim) but I do find them distinguishable.
Murder is murder. We arenât getting anywhere if itâs open season on any segment of society.
And by open season I mean aiming a firearm at another person and pulling the trigger.
I know it is the system that the US has designed to deliver healthcare that is the villain here - and employees of health insurance companies are living under the same system as everyone else - but health insurers are the proxy that politicians and oligarchs hide behind.
Shooting someone on the street or letting them die to increase shareholder value both result in the death of someone who would not otherwise die, and I think people are starting to see those two deliberate actions the same.
I wonder if the family will have any difficulty with a life insurance policy? Will they need to prove this wasnât a paid for suicide before collecting?
